PUNE: The Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) added 997 cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday as against 907 recoveries due to rise in the number of tests in the last 24 hours.
The rural areas continued to add over 500 new cases, while the PMC and PCMC areas added 243 and 168 fresh infections, respectively. The region’s daily count of positive cases has remained around 1,000 on most days this past week, while daily sample testing has stayed more than 20,000.
On Tuesday, as many as 27,515 samples were tested in the region, which pushed its progressive tally of tests to 69.98 lakh.
Over 15,500 samples were tested in the rural and cantonment areas on Tuesday. As many as 7,840 samples were checked in the PMC limits and 4,142 in the Pimpri Chinchwad limits.
Health officials said concentrated efforts were underway in the rural areas to identify patients. The tally of positive cases increased to 11.15 lakh in PMR on Tuesday, while its recoveries reached 10.87 lakh.
Seven people succumbed to the infection in PMR on Tuesday. The tally of active patients in the region climbed further to 9,353 on Tuesday evening, including as many as 4,648 patients in home isolation.
